File No. 812.00/4692.
The Acting Secretary of State to the American Ambassador.
Washington, August 24, 1912—2 p.m.
Your August 22, 1 p.m. The Vicksburg will watch the situation from Guaymas and the War Department has taken steps to deal with any situation that may arise along the Sonora border.
The situation has also been brought to the attention of the Mexican Ambassador, who states that there are 3,600 Federal troops in Sonora but that he does not know how they are distributed. He admits the present governor’s incapacity for dealing as a military commander with present conditions, of which the Minister seems to be uninformed. It was intimated to him that this Government regards the situation as serious and one that should be handled energetically, and it was suggested that additional troops could doubtless be sent to Sonora via Manzanillo or Mazatlan, and the Ambassador said he would immediately telegraph his Government about it.